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Who was the only U.S. President that spoke English as a second language? John Adams Barack Obama Thomas Jefferson Martin Van Buren ******** Answer: Unlike the seven men who preceded him in the White House, Martin Van Buren was the first president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject. Van Buren was born in 1782 in Kinderhook, New York, where most of the residents, including his parents, were of Dutch descent. Growing up in a Dutch-speaking community, Van Buren learned to speak Dutch before English, making him the only U.S. president to not speak English as a first language. He would learn English as a second language while attending the local school.